message from Tracy- First day in COP14

hello everyone,
now we're in the conference computer center.
this is our first day to be really involved in the conference. Finally we can begin our work.
This morning we tried to contact with some people we want to interview.
surprisingly, all of them are finally connect together in a same network.
tomorrow we'll have a chance to talk with them.
this afternoon we joined a meeting which got all the young representative from Asia together.
we found that the same situation almost happen in all countries:Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, HongKong.
How can we increase the "issue awareness" among youth?How do we stand out to speak something for what we are concerning?
what's the core competency of youth? passionate? young? practical? or anything you can imagine(those cliche)
It's true.
when all the youth get together, and we were not speaking for our own benefit, or for our own country.
we were not playing benefit exchange games,
instead, we stand on the same line and fighting against a same issue.
we were thinking about how can we do for this global issue.
I think this is the most important value that youth obtain: a pure care without any other concern.

actually, there is nothing too far for us.
once we decide to initiate, we'll get closer. we can do something, if we really concern about it.

hope that all of you will have a chance to come next year.
it will be impressive.


see you!

Tracy

Charlene in COP14- Day1 (12/8)

Hey, this is Charlene from COP14. Although we just arrived Poznan today, I had an awesome day today.

I met a lot of people and was in a press conference of youth delegation. There are youth representatives from the U.S.A., Sweden& Russia( I think he's a mix), Republic of Congo, Australia, and Peru. They stood at the point of youths from different continents around the globle and spoke out the youth statements of each continent. I like the Australian youth representative the most because she made some strong statements as a youth, and claimed that she would be ashamed of Australia if it doesn't take actions to devote to the betterment of the global environment. It's really a lot of fun that we could be in the conference room. It's really hot in there, so I think some parts of the confernce is actually a waste of energy. Unfortunately there was NO Asian youth representative in the press conference today and that's a thing I think we should work on for COP15. I hope that I could have the chance to attend COP15 next year. Or maybe we could be one of the youth representatives on the stage, making some statements from Asia.

Now I am the co-ordinator of a group in a Asia Youth Forum, aiming to create more access to the negotiation among countries for the developing countries in Asia.(like the youths from Bangladesh, India, Thailand, etc.) I hope that I'll get some things done before the end of the conference. I heard the youth representative from Congo that there are about 500 youth delegate in COP14, but there are only less than 5 people from Africa. We should really concern about the injustice when we're negotiating among countries. And the injustice issue is what I am interested in the conference.

The Asia Youth Forum went quite slow today. I think it was because of the language problem. Sometimes I even couldn't understand what the people were talking about. I hope that I could meet some people from other countries that I could talk more about topics concerning youth activities. Tomorrow morning, we'll have more contact with the youth from all over the world. Wait for our news!!

That's about it for today. Hope to see you guys soon.

regards from Poznan, Poland
Charlene

Networking

Networkin是今年我們參加這次會議的重點：要去認識多一點國外的青年，並且建立友好的關係！也因為背著這個使命，參加這個會議壓力格外巨大。其實我以前很少會去注意這方面的事情，所以感覺會怕怕的。

會想要做網絡的串連也是因為想要藉此導入一些國際資源進來（技巧、經驗以及觀點等等），促進青年的國際合作。不過其實要談維持關係或是國際合作，這是一件困難的是情。其實團隊之間的交流也是希望能夠互惠的，一個團體希望能夠從交流之中獲得一些新的想法或是合作擴大影響力，但是當我們自己東西很少的時候，要維持這樣國際的合作其實是有點困難的。不過另一方面，這些國際上的青年組織都是很有熱情與理想的，當我們提出這方面的需求的時候，他們也都很幫忙！

我今天可能要先寫到這裡了，因為我在會場的電腦室寫文章，現在太晚了（已經十點多囉），我們該回宿舍了，要不然怕有醉漢在路上不安全。
先寫到這裡，重點其實要記錄今天參加亞洲學生的聚會，但是還沒寫到。到時再補。先這樣，希望大家能繼續關注這裡的資訊！

參加COP14的第一天

大家好，我是子堯。這個部落格其實昨天就開始寫囉，不過昨天那篇文章沒寫完，因為昨天沒趕上火車折騰了好久，到了要開始寫東西的時候已經太累了，寫著寫著就睡著了，所以還沒完成。昨天那篇是寫一些最近跟佳達聊天的內容和心得，我有空再把他補起來給大家。因為我印把今天的體力留給今天的事情，今天也是很精彩的一天，一定要寫出來和各位分享！

火車上的準備
今天在火車上大家就開始進入備戰狀態了（不過還是偷玩了一局Board game）。我們的火車是包廂式的，七個人分坐兩個車廂，但是時常互相串門子或是集合討論。我們開始拿著大會side event的schedule猛K，也請李和清老師幫我們講解了各個領域的火熱議題在哪裡，並且討論了大家可以如何參與這些五花八門的side evnet。在火車上談話的感覺非常棒，感覺是一群熱血的同道人聚在一起要開始大幹一場了。

到了會場的一陣亂找
當我們火車到了Poznan，我們也順利的遇到了接待我們的host，並且去他那邊把行李安頓下來後就去會場了。進到會場超興奮的，但是也很緊張，因為我們已經錯過了一個早上的side event不想要再錯過下午的，而且我們三個人完全不知到要到哪裡去報到，也不知道那些side event在哪裡。加上會場很大，這一大區裡面分隔為很多棟建築物，我們剛開始走錯地方，在一陣驚慌亂找之中繞了好大一圈才找到報到的地方，順利的取得識別證。等到搞清楚會場的狀況、動線以及會議室後來位置後大概也已經下午三點多了...，那時候心情才稍微放鬆一點，不過也的確錯過了下午一點的那場（可惜，我原本要去聽Climate Change Risk and Insurance的）。

重頭戲：Networking 請見下篇
雖然今天一開始是一陣忙亂，不過還是有令人振奮的進展，我們認識了一群亞洲的學生，這群人可能會一發展什麼東西，是今天的重頭戲，這部分的內容留到下一篇囉。